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345 penciled at top of page. Again, page bisected longitudinally as before Indian text principal mourner commenced gashing or cutting her ankles and legs up to the knees with a sharp stone until her legs were covered with a gore of blood; then in like manner her arms, shoulders and breast. The others cut themselves in the same way, but not so severely. The sister appeared frantic with grief. Through the pain of her wounds, the loss of blood, exhaustion of strength by fasting, - loud and long continued, and bitter groans, or the extreme cold upon her almost naked and lacerated body, she soon sunk upon the frozen groung shaking as with a violent fit of the ague, and writhing in apparent agony. Miss. Herald. May 1836. P 189. _____________________________ Being purified by the priest, soon after the burial, the mourners went into their house, put ashes on their heads, and wrapped themselves in an old cloth (literally a torn cloth, or sack cloth) and sat down by the fire, and thus mourned seven ays. Deer in the water _________________

Jews text the girdle, walking with the shoes off, - head uncovered, - concealing the chin in the outer garment, - dishevelling the hair, neglecting the hair and beard, - refusing to anoint the head, bathe or converse, - scattering dust or ashes in the air, or putting them on their heads, or lying down in them. - striking their hands together or tossing them towards the sky, - smiting the thigh or breast, - stamping with the feet, wounding their faces with their nails, fasting, - retiring alone or, John's Archaeology.